Friday, January 16, 2015

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and international press. In addition, our free speech rally this weekend
countering the "Stand with the Prophet" anti-free speech.

"Islamophobia" summit in Garland, Texas has roiled the enemies of truth and freedom. They are out for blood.

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Here's how we are impacting/changing the national and international conversation:

Armed with a new law that helps residents and advocacy groups to
sue to uphold a 40-year-old preemption law, the National Rifle
Association is going after three cities that have been violating the
rights of their citizens with illegal gun control laws.

Armed with a new state law that opponents denounce as a
gift to the gun lobby, pro-gun groups are rapidly scaling up their
attack on municipal firearms ordinances throughout Pennsylvania, with
the National Rifle Association filing suit over gun-control measures in
three cities.

Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Lancaster have “openly defied” a
40-year-old state law that forbids municipalities from regulating
firearms, said Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA’s Institute for
Legislative Action.

The cities said they will fight the NRA, contending the local regulations are a sensible way to address deadly gun violence.

“This should be a wake-up call for citizens across Pennsylvania,”
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said. “We’re not taking away anyone’s right
to own a gun — or 10 or 20 guns.

What we’re saying is when a gun is
lost or stolen, you’ve got to report it. Too many people are being
killed in the streets of Pittsburgh and other cities with stolen guns.”

Pennsylvania has long barred its municipalities from approving
ordinances that regulate the ownership, possession, transfer or
transportation of guns or ammunition. But scores of cities and towns
ignored the prohibition, and gun-rights groups complained the local
measures were difficult to challenge because judges have ruled that
plaintiffs could not prove harm.

Duke Backs Down, Cancels Muslim Call to Prayer from Chapel Tower

Duke University has abandoned its plan to transform the
bell tower on the Methodist school’s neo-gothic cathedral into a minaret
where the Muslim call to prayer was to be publicly broadcast.

“Duke
remains committed to fostering an inclusive, tolerant and welcoming
campus for all of its students,” university spokesman Michael Schoenfeld
said in a statement. “However, it was clear that what was conceived as
an effort to unify was not having the intended effect.”

The first
adhan, or call to prayer, had been scheduled to be broadcast on Jan. 16.
University officials said, the Islamic chant, which includes the words
“Allahu Akbar” would have been “moderately amplified” -- in both English and Arabic.

However,
the decision brought a firestorm of national criticism from a number of
high profile leaders including Franklin Graham, the son of famed
evangelist Billy Graham.

“This is a Methodist school and the money
for that chapel was given by Christian people over the years so that
the student body would have a place to worship the God of the Bible,”
Graham told me in a telephone interview.

He had called for university donors to pull their funding – (and I suspect that had something to do with Duke’s decision.)

Instead, the prayers will be moved to outside the chapel.

“Members
of the Muslim community will now gather on the quadrangle outside the
Chapel, a site of frequent interfaith programs and activities,”
Schoenfeld said.

The university did not say whether the Muslim call to prayer would be “moderately amplified” at the new location.

As President Obama frees droves of terrorists—including
five Yemenis this week—from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo news
reports confirm that a Gitmo alum who once led a Taliban unit has
established the first Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) base in
Afghanistan.

His name is Mullah Abdul Rauf and international and domestic media
reports say he’s operating in Helmand province, actively recruiting
fighters for ISIS. Citing local sources, a British newspaper writes that
Rauf set up a base and is offering good wages to anyone willing to
fight for the Islamic State. Rauf was a corps commander during the
Taliban’s 1996-2001 rule of Afghanistan, according to intelligence
reports. After getting captured by U.S. forces, he was sent to Gitmo in
southeast Cuba but was released in 2007.

Rauf’s Department of Defense Joint Task Force Guantanamo file
describes him as being closely associated with several senior level
Taliban commanders and leaders. It also says that Rauf admitted
involvement in the production and sales of opium as well as associations
with criminal elements within the Taliban and the Northern Alliance.
From the file: “Due to recent findings that detainee may have had a more
important role within the Taliban than previously thought detainee’s
intelligence value has been updated from low to medium due to his
possible knowledge of: (1) Taliban leadership, (2) Taliban command and
control.”

Rauf is one of a number of Gitmo terrorists who have returned to the
fight after getting released, yet Obama continues freeing captives to
keep his campaign promise of closing the prison. Just this week he let
four Yemenis go, despite the risk that they will likely join Al Qaeda in
the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen-based terror group that claimed
responsibility for last week’s attack in France. In fact, dozens of
freed Gitmo detainees have rejoined Al Qaeda in Yemen, the country where
the 2009 Christmas Day airline bomber proudly trained. In 2010 Judicial
Watch reported that a number of high-ranking Al Qaeda militants in
Yemen—once held at Gitmo—may have been involved in a sophisticated
scheme to send bombs on a U.S.-bound cargo plane….

Bobby Jindal: Muslims Must Admit 'Islam Has a Problem'

"If Islam does not support what is happening in the name of Islam, then
they need to stand up and stop it," Jindal declares in a speech he'll
give Monday in London, the Daily Caller reports.

"Many Islamic leaders argue that these are the acts of a radical few."

But, Jindal's speech at the Henry Jackson Society will argue, "Let’s be honest here, Islam has a problem."

"I will warn you in advance that I’m going to say some things that are
not politically correct, so brace yourselves," he will say, the Daily
Caller reports.

"To be clear, I have no interest in defaming any religion, nor do I have
any interest in assigning the maniacal acts of radical Islamists to
millions of Muslims worldwide. I’m interested only in dealing with
reality and facts.

"And the fact is that radical Islamists do not believe in freedom or
common decency, nor are they willing to accommodate them in any way and
anywhere," Jindal says. "We need to stop pretending otherwise. … We are
fools to pretend otherwise."

According to the Daily Caller, Jindal will insist that Muslim leaders
emphasize anyone who commits "acts of terror in the name of Islam is in
fact not practicing Islam at all."

"If they refuse to say this, then they are condoning these acts of barbarism," Jindal says.

"There is no middle ground."

Jindal's remarks are in stark contrast to the Obama administration, which has carefully avoided using the term "radical Islam," insisting it doesn't want to legitimize terrorists' use of Islam for their attacks.

In his speech, Jindal also will say America needs to get tough and stay that way, the Daily Caller reports.

"I want America’s allies to trust us and respect us, and I want our
enemies to fear us," he says. "Every day our enemies spend their time
trying to avoid our justice is a day they are not plotting against us.
And I fear that in recent years this has not been the case."

He will also take on a leftist notion that it's bigoted to expect
immigrants to assimilate when they come to the United States, the Daily
Caller reports.

"There was once a time when it was taken for granted in America that
people who came to our country were coming to America to be Americans,"
he says. "But over time, a different philosophy has crept in, and that
philosophy now dominates the thinking of the American left, and perhaps
even the mainstream of thinking in Europe.

"This philosophy holds the view that it is wrong to expect assimilation,
that assimilation is colonialist, assimilation is backward, and
assimilation is in fact evidence of cultural bigotry and insensitivity.

"They think it is wrong to expect that people who chose to immigrate to
your country should be expected to endorse and abide by your laws.

"They think it is unenlightened, discriminatory, and even racist to
expect immigrants to endorse and assimilate into the culture in their
new country.

“The war on terror has reached a lethal phase, and it is insane to be
letting these people out of Gitmo to go back to the fight.”
- Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) upon hearing of Obama's newest round of GITMO releases

We all know...or should know by now...that islamic muslim
terrorists...YES muslim terrorists...are slowly gaining in their goal
of establishing an islamic caliphate under the banner of ISIS with Abu
Bakr al-Baghdadi as the caliphate's leader.

And we all know...or should know by now...that Barack HUSSEIN Obama
is an ISIS sympathizer of the first degree for his actions...or should I
say lack thereof...speak volumes as to where his loyalties lie. What
more proof do the American people need than to know that with radical
islam now fully engaged in both cultural and military jihad against the
West, this president...this White House...still refuses to utter the
words 'radical islam' choosing instead to call these terrorist acts
'violent extremism.' And he still will NOT say the words even after
seeing the video of the two black-clad islamic muslim terrorists running
through a Paris street yelling, "We have avenged the prophet Muhammad!"
right after their murderous bloodbath.

That along with Wednesday night's Department of Defense announcement
that Obama, under the cover of night, released five more captured in
Pakistan al-Qaeda fighters now former GITMO detainees despite them being
officially listed as medium to high risk. Saying that said 'transfers'
were "unanimously approved" by all agencies responsible for reviewing
them, the Obama administration continues to claim these persons are a
low-level risk at best.

Sending four of the five (Al Khadr Abdallah Muhammad Al Yafi, Fadel
Hussein Saleh Hentif, Abd Al-Rahman Abdullah Au Shabati, and Mohammed
Ahmed Salam) to Oman (with the other, Akhmed Abdul Qadirbeing being sent
to Estonia)...let's NOT forget that Oman shares a common border with
both Yemen and Saudi Arabia...and is a direct slap in the face to
France because the islamic muslim terrorists who carried out the
assassinations at Charlie Hebdo were financed, supported, and given
their 'marching orders' by 'al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula' (AQAP)...as in
their being based in Yemen.

In fact, a recently released video by Nasr al-Ansi (see video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVus1MP02aY), a top al-Qaeda
commander in Yemen, claims responsibility for the Charlie Hebdo attack
and offers his congratulations to the Nation of Islam for the massacre that
"soothed our pain." Soothed their pain over 'mo-toons' (moniker courtesy
of Pamela Geller) that irked their sensibilities for the magazine's
showing the truth about their pedophile 'so-called' prophet...soothed
their pain because they consider France a member of the 'party of Satan'...meaning aligned with the 'Great Satan' America.

And why did Obama do this now so close to the events in Paris and
coming but six months or so after his infamous and highly contentious
5-for-1 Taliban trade for Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl? Why...simply
put...this was his payback for the new Republican controlled Congress'
proposed legislation to block GITMO prisoner transfers for a minimum of
two years...in other words until the 2016 elections. And know there are
only 122 prisoners left from the 780 originally held at GITMO (the first
arrived on January 11, 2002) with the most dangerous released on
Obama's watch...of course. And with another 54 Obama
administration-cleared prisoners (with 47 of them being Yemeni) just
counting off the days until they too are released...let it be known that
these people are welcomed home as heroes and soon return to their
terrorist ways.

And according to a House Armed Services Sub-Committee Report, under
the Obama regime his portion of the to date 150+ Gitmo detainees released (30% of
all detainees) most have been confirmed or suspected of re-engaging in
terrorist or insurgent activities after their release, and know that most of
these were deemed to be low-level threats by this administration. And sadly,
thanks to all the cuts Obama has made to our intel community there is
about a two and a half year delay between said person's release and when
U.S. Intelligence learns and verifies that the released individual has indeed
returned to terrorism.

And now we have five more to worry about.

Based upon Obama's 2008 campaign promise to close GITMO and fear that
if he doesn't it will have a negative affect on his legacy, Ian Moss, a
spokesman for the U.S. State Department on Guantanamo said, "We are
committed to closing the detention facility. That's our goal and we are
working toward that goal," NEVER mind that events over the past year
involving both al-Qaeda and ISIS would lead anyone with even one working
brain cell to realize that now is NOT the time to continue with these
releases. And to do so in light of last week's attack in France and
yesterday's thankfully thwarted would have been attack in Belgium...an
attack by a fully operational and heavily armed terrorist cell...is especially grievous.

NOT the time for someone who should be siding with America and the
West to release them, but most definitely the time for someone whose
allegiances lie with the enemy to release them...and so Barack HUSSEIN
Obama did just that and promises he will soon release even more. And in
light of Chuck Hagel's resignation as Secretary of Defense...a man with
mixed allegiances of his own but still a man who tried to slow down the
releases out of fear that the freed detainees could become a security
threat to American troops...Obama...NEVER a supporter of our
military...is now running rampant with these releases NOT caring about
the impact this will have on our troops...NOT caring that these releases
could come back to haunt us here on American soil. And Obama is also
relishing in the fact that his new Secretary of Defense nominee, Ashton
B. Carter, is as liberal and unsupportive of our military as he is.

Releasing these bast*rds while NOT caring that certain pre-set conditions had
to met by the countries willing to take in these 'transfers,' America's
traitor-in-chief NO longer is waiting for security improvements to be
made in Yemen that would help keep these persons out of that country...which as previously said is where most of the remaining prisoners are
from. And he thinks he's fooling us by transferring them to neighboring
countries...countries with the same lax security as Yemen...countries
who say they will deny them passports and will place them in
rehabilitation programs for militants but NEVER seem to do so...making it
easy for these individuals to cross said host country's borders to return
home to Yemen...to return home to join up once again with their terrorist
buddies.

And we still have two more years of Barack HUSSEIN Obama releasing these dangerous people. Remember, this is the very man who released nuclear terrorist
and Secretary General of the Taliban’s Intelligence Directorate,
Mohammad Zahir, back to Afghanistan even though when he was captured he
was in possession of uranium and 'heavy water' both used in making
atomic bombs.

And let's NOT forget his infamous afore mentioned 5-for-1 trade where two of those he
released, Mullah Mohammad Fazi, the Taliban army chief of staff, and
Mullah Norullah Noori, senior Taliban military commander, are both
wanted for war crimes by the U.N. for murdering thousands of Shiites.

And know these are just the tip of the iceberg of those who have now returned to their terrorist ways.

So as Barack HUSSEIN Obama continues to embolden our
enemy with these 'so-called' trades, U.S. designated terrorist group
CAIR praises the American media...including FOX News...for NOT showing
the latest Charlie Hebdo magazine cover as they cower in fear of
rightfully criticizing the pedophile prophet mohammed...and the islamic
muslim terrorists win yet again.

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